You’d think people like Perkins and Singer could afford professional PR advice. Since they can’t (or are too cheap), here’s my free advice: You clueless morons would be better off if you just kept your mouths shut, because every time you open your mouths, you stick both feet in.

Here’s one of the best essays I’ve read on why the notion that the economic elite are better qualified to run the world than the rest of us is pure poppycock. It takes a little time to read, but is worth the effort. Shorter version: Markets randomly choose winners and losers, and if a person comes out on top (i.e. is “successful”), it’s because he’s lucky not smart.

He said that a number of people he served time with were “first-time offenders who don’t need prison to pay their … debt to society.” The punishments, he argued, are disproportionate to the crimes.

“You don’t think of the collateral damage that’s done to … families, children,” Kerik said, adding that there’s also a high economic cost. “There has to be an educational system for people to see and understand what this is doing to society.”

Republicans roll out (wait for it)…..BRISTOL PALIN….to attack Wendy Davis in ongoing sexist smear impugning her skills as a parent.

Gosh, children are sooo inconvenient, huh? I’m glad my mother didn’t put motherhood on the shelf when she was elected to City Council, then became our mayor, then Governor. Oh sorry – I mentioned my mother… Have you liberals gone into a tail spin of hate already? Did I lose you?

Bristol fucking Palin….attacking Wendy Davis??? Will the hilarity never end? I think 2014 is going to be a VERY GOOD year.

Fusion’s Jorge Ramos asked Davis to respond to Palin’s tweet linking to a blog post she wrote that characterized Davis as a woman “whose ambition and ego were so big she couldn’t have both a career and kids at the same time”

Not about Wendy Davis in specific, but I hate this double standard. How many conservatives ask the men if they balance career and kids at the same time? Have you EVER heard them say “His ambition and ego were so big he couldn’t have both a career and kids at the same time!” Why do conservatives demand that it’s a woman’s job to take care of the kids, before career? Did they ask Romney to focus on his children? Hell, did they demand Palin focus on raising her kids?

Trotting out children to attack the opposition party’s candidates? What’s next, giving their kids guns, and telling them to go out and shoot liberals? There’s a word for people who recruit kids to do their dirty work for them, but I forget what it is.

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